Monday, October 5, 2026
19:00 Reception
19:30 Dinner
Tuesday, October 6, 2026
08:00 – 09:00 Breakfast
09:00 – 11:00 Session 1
Looking Back: Stocktaking of Social Monitoring and Reporting Activities
Chair: Peter Farago (formerly FORS, Lausanne)
Heinz-Herbert Noll (formerly GESIS, Mannheim)
The Conference Series "Social Monitoring and Reporting in Europe" – A Short History
Jeroen Boelhouwer (The Netherlands Institute for Social Research, The Hague)
Social Monitoring and Reporting in the Netherlands Since 1973
Monica Budowski (University of Fribourg) and Christian Suter (University of Neuchâtel)
Observing Swiss Society in the 21st Century: Social Monitoring and Reporting Activities in Switzerland, 2000–2025
Rudi Van Dam (Ministry for Social Security, Belgium)
From the Margins to the Center? 25 Years of Social Indicators in EU Governance
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:45 Session 2
Long-term Trends of Well-being and Quality of Life
Chair: Tadas Leončikas (Eurofound, Dublin)
Marc Callens (Ghent University, Belgium) and Dries Verlet (Statistics Flanders/Ghent University, Belgium)
Life Satisfaction: Historical Trends (1973–2024) and Generational Shifts
(1895–2005) Across Europe
Crétien van Campe and Jeroen Boelhouwer (The Netherlands Institute for Social Research, The Hague)
Trends in Objective and Subjective Quality of Life in the Netherlands Since 1976: Lessons for Policy-makers
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 15:15 Guided tour of the Villa Vigoni and its garden by the staff of Villa Vigoni
15:30 – 17:30 Session 3
Determinants of Well-being and Quality of Life
Chair: Laura Kestilä (Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki)
Ghazaleh Pakdel, Aleid Brouwer, and A. (Thanasis) Ziogas (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
Has Institutional Trust Become More Important for Well-Being in Times of Crisis? Evidence from European Regions
Cosimo Frontera (Eurofound, Dublin)
Digital Technologies, Generative AI and Worker Well-being in Europe: Evidence from the European Working Conditions Surveys
Marije Kooistra (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
Spatial Spillovers in Well-being Domains and Regional Complementarity
Jennifer van Beek (University of Amsterdam) and Keara Dennehy (Massachusetts Institute of Technology/University of Amsterdam)
A Spatial Examination of the Urban Wellbeing Paradox in Europe
17:30 – 17:45 Coffee Break
17:45 – 18:45 Session 4
Family, Child and Youth Well-being and its Monitoring
Chair: István György Tóth (Tárki Social Research Institute, Budapest)
Merita Mesiäislehto and Sakari Karvonen (Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland)
Trajectories of Economic Vulnerability Among Families with Children in Europe in 2004–2023
Nina Vos (Research and Statistics, City of Amsterdam), Marileen Wiegersma (Public Health Service, Amsterdam), Claudia Verhagen (Public Health Service, Amsterdam), Lotje Cohen (Research and Statistics, City of Amsterdam), and Ellen Lindeman (Research and Statistics, City of Amsterdam)
Declining Happiness and Optimism for the Future Among Young Adults in Amsterdam: Risks, Protective Factors, and Vulnerable Subgroups
19:30 Dinner
Wednesday, October 7, 2026
08:00 – 09:00 Breakfast
09:00 – 10:30 Session 5
Moving Forward: New Approaches to Well-being Analysis, Social Monitoring and Reporting
Chair: Heinz-Herbert Noll (formerly GESIS, Mannheim)
Filomena Maggino and Roberta Padul (Sapienza University, Rome)
Analyzing BES Indicators in Systemic Terms: A Proposal for Applying Graph Theory
Hassan Bashiri (Hamedan University of Technology, Iran), Petra Ahrweiler (Johannes Guttenberg University, Mainz), and Massimo Rusconi (University of Insubria, Varese)
From Numbers to Narratives: LLM-Assisted Narrative Auditing in European Social Monitoring
Paulina Pankowska (Utrecht University), Ruben Bach (Mannheim University), and Andreas Haupt (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) (online presentation)
The Gendered Division of Cognitive Household Labour and Mental Load in the Digital Space: Using Web Tracking Data to Estimate Cognitive Household Labour
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Session 6
Panel Discussion: Social Monitoring and Reporting in Europe: Past, Present, and Possible Futures
Chair: Christian Suter (University of Neuchâtel)
Panelists:
Jeroen Boelhouwer (The Netherlands Institute for Social Research, The Hague)
Filomena Maggino (Sapienza University, Rome)
István György Tóth (Tárki Social Research Institute, Budapest)
12:30 – 12:45 Future Plans (Business Meeting)
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch and Departure